This book is born of a contradiction: on the one hand, there has been a genuine advance in the awareness of male violence and actions to oppose it. On the other, male violence against women persists. So too does its denial, and the counter-attack against those who seek to expose it.

[Note: This book was removed via a DMCA request from the publisher, Harvard University Press, who refuses to make an electronic version available for purchase]

When is rape not a crime? When it’s pornography–or so First Amendment law seems to say: in film, a rape becomes “free speech.” Pornography, Catharine MacKinnon contends, is neither speech nor free. Pornography, racial and sexual harassment, and hate speech are acts of intimidation, subordination, terrorism, and discrimination, and should be legally treated as such.

Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice
by John Stoltenberg
2000 2nd Ed.

Posted by rfa on Jul 23rd, 2012 in Various Authors | Comments Off on The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism

The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism
Edited by Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice G. Raymond. 1990

On April 6, 1987, eight hundred people packed an auditorium at New York University Law School, while hundreds more sat riveted to television monitors outside. They came to hear many of the major feminist writers, thinkers, and leaders address an ideology and a program that, they asserted, was undermining feminism in the guise of being its best friend.

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